Opposing Sided Divider Zip Seal Channel With Sleeve

ABSTRACT

Opposing Sided Divider Zip Seal Channel With Sleeve allows for multiple sealable compartments made from plastic, paper, foil, rubber, latex or compatible combinations in one bag. It is made for home, industrial or commercial usage such as pharmaceutical, medical packaging and food accommodations for retail marketing, storage or transportation of product and other uses. Compartments can be filled with solids or liquids and/or coolants or combinations. The size of the reusable flexible multi-compartmental containers vary from very small (less than one inch or 2.5 cm) to extra large (hundreds of inches or cms) and are amenable to various modifications and alternative forms. 
     The sealing channel dividers consist of channel strips that have solid raised centers and mating strips with two sealing opposing raised sides permitting opening and resealing of multiple separate compartments. A gusset added to each side and to the bottom of a compartment allows expansion.

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

A huge number of and a wide variety of bags are produced each day forconsumer convenience. Plastic bags are commonly used for food packagingsuch as sandwich bags of freeze bags made to package or to store food.The current such bags are commonly single compartment plastic filmsealed on the sides and the bottom made from thermoplastic typicallyclosed with a tie wire, adhesive, or a plastic zipper examples of whichare sold by the S.C. Johnson Company of Racine, Wis., USA, undertrademark Ziploc™.

Every time an Opposing Sided Divider Zip Seal Channel With Sleeve ismade from plastic it creates multiple compartments and a minimum of oneplastic bag is eliminated from circulation in the general populationmaking this invention cost effective and eco system assisted byeffectively elimination one single compartment bag from the environmentfor each and every compartment added with an Opposing Sided Divider ZipSeal Channel With Sleeve. This significantly reduces and partiallyeliminates plastic waste pollution that is known to kill andsignificantly impact animals and other life forms. Thismulti-compartmental bag may be made from plastic, paper, foil, rubber,latex and any other combinations thereof or other design suitablematerial. The bags allow for other design suitable Materials to be useddepending upon its intended use.

The multi-compartmental bags have unlimited design usages such asseparation of distinct items, organizational use, home use, industrialuse, commercial use, pharmaceutical, medical packaging and foodaccommodations which can be used for sale, storage or transportation ofgoods and material. The compartments may be made with see through orsolid non-visible sheeting. Size of the multi-compartmental bags is notlimited depending upon the containment accommodated and suitablematerial used to create the container. They can vary in size from verysmall (less than one inch or 2.5 cm) or extra large (hundreds of inchesor cms)

BRIEF SUMMARY OF INVENTION

This invention makes it possible to convert two bags into 1 bag. Itallows for multiple compartments to be put together in one plastic orother suitable material zip seal bag. The Opposing Sided Divider ZipSeal Channel With Sleeve design makes it possible to increase the numberof compartments in one plastic bag simply by adding another OpposingSided Divider Zip Seal Channel With Sleeve. Every time one OpposingSided Divider Zip Seal Channel With Sleeve is added, the need for anadditional plastic or other suitable material bag is eliminated, therebyreducing the cost of the production of the bag and making the bag moreefficient and effectively reducing waste. Each time an Opposing SidedDivider Zip Seal Channel With Sleeve is added, it doubles the number oftillable sealable compartments in each bag. The compartments can befilled with solids or liquids and/or coolants or combinations.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

FIG. 1 is a example diagram of a plastic sealable (and resealable) bagwith a center Opposing Sided Divider Zip Seal Channel With Sleeve at thetop, designated as Number 1 (left side of middle sheeting) and Number 2(right side of middle sheeting)

The portion of the zip seal designated as Number 3 is the inside of thefirst single sheeting on the left side and is made with a female zipseal on the right side of that single sheeting. Number 4 is the insideof the single sheeting on the right side and is made with a female zipseal on the left side of that single sheeting. Number 5 is the outsideon the left side of the first single sheeting. Number 6 is the left sideof the middle or second single sheeting with two male zip seals, one onthe left side of the middle single sheeting (Number 1) and the other onthe right side of the middle single sheeting (Number 2). Number 7 is theinside of the third single sheeting on the right side and is made with afemale zip seal on the left side of the single sheeting (Number 4).

The bottoms of the four sides on the two outside sheetings and thebottom two sides of the middle sheeting and the three ends of the bottomof the three sheetings are heat sealed together and is the completion ofa two compartment bag out of a total of 3 sheetings with the OpposingSided Divider Zip Seal Channel With Sleeve in the center.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The general aim of this invention is to provide a new and improvedcontainer whose interior is divided into separate compartments. Thenumber of the separated compartments contained in the middle of the bagis determined by the number of dual Opposing Sided Divider Zip SealChannels With Sleeve that are added. Each single Opposing Sided DividerZip Seal Channel With Sleeve that is added creates one separateadditional compartment, a total of two compartments. If another singledual Opposing Sided Divider Zip Seal Channel With Sleeve is added, thatcreates one more separate additional compartment, a total of threecompartments. The bags may be modified to produce any desired number ofcompartments—two, three, four, five, etc.

For purposes of illustration, the bag includes at least two upright sidepanels made from a flexible piece of heat sealable material or fromflexible material with a heat sealable coating as expressed in theinvention drawing on page 3. The Opposing Sided Divider Zip Seal ChannelWith Sleeve is made by adhering two zip seal ribbons, back-to-back,creating one dual sided zip seal channel (center) allowing foradditional zip seal ribbons and sleeves to be attached comprising ofmultiple compartments. In doing so, reducing plastic waste into thecirculation into the population and eco system by at least 50% or moredepending on the amount of compartments created.

The Opposing Sided Divider Zip Seal Channel With Sleeve exceeds thecapabilities of single sided zip seal ribbons in circulation today byallowing the zipper ribbon to be sealed on both sides or mated on bothsides as opposed to just one side creating multiple more efficientcompartments using less material as shown in the drawing on page 3.

The foldable addition of a gusset may be added to each side of acompartment and to the bottom increments allowing each compartment ofthe bag to expand to have additional width of each compartment in thebag and conveniently permitting expansion to contain significantly morestorage space. The joinder of the sides of the sheeting and the bottomends of each sheeting to one another creates sealing of each individualcompartment subject to its zip seal opener and closer on each individualcompartment. The proposed bags may be constructed from a combination ofmaterials in one bag such as foil and flexible plastic causing acompatible combination for the product to be filled into the bag.

This unique multi-compartment configuration provides for distinctopening accessibility or closing ability for multiple separatecompartments and reusable flexible containers. While the invention isamenable to various modifications and alternative forms, specificsthereof have been shown by way of the drawing on page 3. The intentionis not to limit the invention to the particular embodiments describedherein, but to cover all possible modifications, equivalents andalternatives falling within the scope of the invention as defined by theappended claim.

Each plastic sealing channel divider consists of two opposing raisedsides that mate. One channel strip has a solid raised center and themating strip has two raised sides fitting along each side of the solidraised channel strip. The center channel consists of two additionalsealing plastic opposing sides with one mating center channel strip sealfor each opposing side of the center channel seal strip creating twoadditional sealable compartments in one bag. The purpose of the centerchannel design allows for two exterior plastic sleeves consisting of twocenter channel zip seals, one for each opposing side of the centerchannel which creates two compartments in one bag with one zip sealpromoting less production of hazardous waste and to help our economy byincreasing individual efficiency as well as organization.

1. Opposing Sided Divider Zip Seal Channel With Sleeve allows multipleseparated and sealable compartments to be created and used in oneplastic or other suitable material bag.